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g.ScU. 6.
Hew Satan
dealeth
with
frncere
profef-
fors,and
fiai
with
the
weake
ariftian..
84,
OfSatani
ftratagem.r
fwadingvs that
pietie
without
honeflie,
profeffìon
without
pra6lifè,faith
without
workes
are fufficient
for ourfaluation..
But
if
they be fincereprofeffors,
then
hee obferueth whe-
ther
they be babes or flrong men in Chrifl
;
ifhe
finde
the
babes,then
he feeketh to abufe
their
fimplicitie, by
drawing
them either
into
errours
and
herefes,
or
at
leaf}
into blind
zeale
and fuperflition.If
he
cannot
fo
preuaile, by
reafon
that'
the
bright
beanies
ofthe
Gofpell fhining in
the preaching
of
the word doe
difcouer
his
errors and lies,
giuing light to
thofe
that
fit
in the darknes
ofignorance,
and
in
the fhadow
of
death, whereby their
feete
are
guided into the
way
of
peace,then
he
laboureth to
ouerwhelme them with the bur
-
then
of
their
finnes,
and
to plunge
them
into
the
bottòmleffe
gulfe
ofhorrour
and
defpaire,by
aggrauating
the
odioufnes
of
their rebellion, and huge
multitudes
of
their outragious
tranfgreffìons,
by fetting
before them the
curfe
ofthe
law,
the
vengeance
ofGod
due
vnto them,
his
infinite and
exaa
iuf
}ice
which mull bee
fatisfied,
and
vnfpeakable
and
end_
leffe
torments prepared
for
the
damned. But
if
he cannot
ag_
grattate their
fins,which in
truth
they haue
committed, and
make
of
them
fuch an
huge mountaine
as
may
ferue
to
ouer-
whelme
them,
lice
addeth
vnto them
his
owne
finnes,
by
ca-
lling
into their
minds
outragious
blafphemies againfl
God,
and
fuch
horrible fuggeflions ofimpietie,
as
it
will make
their
haires
to
f
}and
on
end when
they
do
but think
ofthem,
perfwading them
that they
are
their
owne
thoughts,
and
therefore
horrible
finnes, whereas
in
truth
they
are
but
his
fuggeflions, and therefore
ifwee
doe repell and
reie61
them,
they
are
not
our
firm es
but the
finnes
ofthe
tempter
:
for
as
it
is
not
our
fault
ifa
theefe intice
vs
to
fleale,fo wee
doe
not,.
intertaine
his
motion,
but
Phew
our
deteflation
ofhis
finne;
fo
it
is
not
a
fnne,to
be
tempted,
ifwee.
prefently doe
repo:
1
the
ftiggeflion, and
doe riot yeeld vnto the
temptation..
And
this
may appeare
by
our Sauiour
Chrifl
himfelfe, who
though
he were free
from
finne,
yet
he was
tempted
in
all
things
like vnto
vs,
and
fo
not
free
from
Satins
fuggeflions,
.
for
tie was
tempted to
diffidence,
to tempting God,
yea
to
the
wortipping of
the diuell
himfelfe3
but
refilling Satans
fugellions3.